During a crisis, crimes of an extremist nature “are capable of destroying any society,” President Dmitry Medvedev said on February 6 at an extended meeting of the Interior Ministry board. Against the background of a general decrease in crime, the number of crimes of an extremist nature increased by a third, he added. Therefore, the fight against extremism should come to the fore in the work of law enforcement agencies.

What causes the fall of the ruble, of course. The currencies of almost all developing and many developed countries have fallen quite strongly in price. Even the English pound was pretty injured. All this is the result of distrust of national currencies, which arose as a result of various kinds of problems facing specific national economies during the crisis.

It seems to me that everything went very dynamically. It has been demonstrated that we are indeed trying to find an adequate response to the crisis. The proposals are serious, and we, unlike many well-wishers who propose to repair something in a collapsing building, propose political reform as a necessary prelude to economic measures to overcome the crisis.

It has happened, the Kremlin has finally persuaded its six sworn friends to create an anti-NATO. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which had been resting quite peacefully and virtually for seven years, suddenly decided to make itself known loudly.

Members of the Bureau of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Milov and Alexander Ryklin held a press conference on February 6 at the Central House of Journalists, at which they presented a program for overcoming the crisis. According to Solidarity representatives, the Putin regime is unable to cope with the global financial and economic crisis.

The week turned out to be a real gift for a military observer. If you look at the Kremlin’s actions, it is not a full-scale economic crisis that threatens the Motherland, not the “green” crisis, which, damn it, is growing by leaps and bounds, turning public sector employees’ salaries and pensions into dust. No, it’s clear from everything: Russia is on the eve of a war with an insidious enemy, and it has thrown all its resources into defending itself against it.